CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929 — Page 45

Mr. White.

Mr.

Bickle

Mr.

62838/29 Hong Kong.

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2014 7.

2611

Downing Street,

Mr. Bottomley.

Sir E. Harding.

Sir J. Shuckburgh.

Sir G. Grindle.

Sir C. Davis.

Sir S. Wilson.

Mr. W. Lunn.

MXXXXXXKXe.

Mr. A. Ponsonby.

xxxxxxx.

Lord Passfield.

MGX XXXkX.

DRAFT.

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26

SEP 1929

Sir,

I am etc. to refer to your

letter AWB of the 13th September

addressed to the Secretary of State

THE GENERAL SECRETARY,

THE BRITISH EMPIRE UNION.

Pamphlet in 53

for Foreign Affairs, relative to the

ui sai system in Hong Kong, and

tate

to inform you that slavery is

the long

illegal in Hong Kong as in other

British Territory, and that In

the year 1923 an Ordinance was

HC

passed in the Colony declaring that

any view to the contrary was

erroneous, and proclaiming certain

specific safeguards in the case of

Amui tsai

the Colony.

in Chinese households in

2.

In response to recent allegations

that this ordinance was not showing

itself